![]() ![]() We are on the level of LeJog and the RAC Rally of the Tests here and this event so far is a little bit of both. It’s why they take you up there, it’s a challenge, but I made a mistake and we dropped a minute, but then this a red event. Twice HERO-ERA Cup winner Paul Bloxidge and his double Golden Roamer winning navigator Ian Canavan may have been closer to the lead but for a mistake at some moorland crossroads Ian, “We had been having a really good day and an excellent evening, a decent run over Porlock Hill then I got mixed up at a couple of junctions on a moorland road. They are determined to do the double and win this event again but another set of double champions 1m 16 seconds behind them are going to try and stop them. We have had great feedback from crews returning after the night section, where else can you do 45 miles at night on great roads, as we did in the Course Car, without meeting a single local car!”Ģ020 Per Ardua winners Paul Crosby and Andy Pullan have been mighty from the start as they not only reveled in the conditions but managed them well, leading overnight in their Porsche 911. ![]() “It’s been a great way to kick off the season, running across Exmoor at this time of year was always going to produce exciting conditions and so it proved it by the snow and ice we had. #7 7 AD INFINITUM PLUS#“After that the crews have battled through fog, snow and now it’s starting to freeze so it has been a proper January rally, a hard one so far as the title of the event suggests, but it’s not over yet! Leg two is a day of tests, 14 of them at venues which include Smeatharpe and Nigel Mansell’s kart track plus six more regularities to keep them on their toes! By the time we got there in the Course Car, there were cars trying to get up that were stuck and modern cars trying to get down so we had to cancel that regularity. The first two regularities went through a couple of farm yards which put the cat amongst the pigeons, unfortunately the third regularity had a really steep descent and a massive snow fall. Guy Woodcock, Clerk of the Course and HERO-ERA Competition Director commented “It was a great start to the season. Rally Report *Snow hails start of exciting new HERO-ERA Rally year *Quantock Hills regularity cancelled as sliding cars block steep descent *Crosby and Pullan lead overnight in champions battle at head of field *HERO-ERA forced to postpone Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo until 2023Ĭompetitors were left in no doubt that the season had started in a good but hard fashion as they reveled in the conditions whilst facing a difficult red coded two day event. ![]()
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